Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 58.68
Liaison Margaret Lo
Submission Date July 21, 2021

STARS v2.2

Ball State University
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.06 / 3.00 Rhonda Wilson
Director, Health Enhancement Programs
Health Enhancement
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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:
3,506

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
100

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
2.85

1st program 

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
Decisions for Sustainability - The BSU Story

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
Every November, the Learning & Development department of the university provides briefings on the BSU sustainability enterprise.

Session Description: At this session, you'll learn about current sustainability efforts at BSU from Robert J. Koester, AIA LEED AP, a BSU Professor of Architecture. He is also Founding Director of the Center for Energy Research / Education / Service (CERES). Robert will also outline planned sustainability projects, both short-range and long-range. Perhaps most importantly, you'll learn how individual employees and departments can contribute to BSU sustainability.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
Provost council (mostly new employees)

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
25

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
1

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
1

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
1

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :

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2nd Program

Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
Council on the Environment Green Initiatives Specialist

A brief description of the employee educators program (2nd program):
Facilitator, Robert J. Koester, is a long-time Ball State Professor of Architecture whose teachings include Design-for-Sustainability and who leads informational sessions on sustainability for employees of the university; staff participate as part of their paid time.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
Employees who are interested

Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
25

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
0

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (2nd program):
0

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (2nd program):
0

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (2nd program):

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Additional Programs 

A brief description of all other employee peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained employee educators (all other programs):
0

Number of weeks, on average, the employee educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
0

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (all other programs):
0

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all other programs):
0

Part 2. Educator hours per employee served by a peer-to-peer program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
1

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.00

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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